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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679

A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.

It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

I'm sorry, I know I brought up the weather earlier but it wouldn't be British without discussing it. Has anybody else seen any sign of this mythical heat wave? The BBC have been running headlines about it for the past couple of days but British weather seems to be its usual miserable self across most of the country.

I feel like the BBC are trying to gaslight us. And don't talk to me about next week 'cause it looks bloody miserable for most of that as well.
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It's hitting 27-30 here. It's fucking hot hot hot.

The American one lets them export beef into our market up to 20k tons tariff-free, though this goes for our beef producers as well so it evens out. (The American deal is probably the one good thing Starmer has done, it's fine to admit that.)

American beef is terrible. They fill it full of so much shit it messes up the kids. A lot of young girls are hitting puberty hard and fast because of the growth hormones in American beef.

All of these deals seem like we bend over backwards and spread our cheeks. None of it is ever in our favour. We just reduce our own territory and resources for no real gain. Giving up fishing rights on a bloody island with fish and chips being the national dish is incredibly stupid. Tell France to go fish niggers out of the ocean. If you roll them in corn flour and deep fry them they're a traditional African meal.

 

[Sir Baz the Intolerant]

If I had to make a guess, it will kick off because of a blackout.

Not a bad guess, but my thoughts will be that the Far Left will Jo Cox anybody in authority who doesn't agree with them.

My guess is a Reform candidate gets Cox'd.

Just to add my two cents to our happy theory crafting on the coming apocalypse. I don't think a political assassination would necessarily have that effect on the UK as from my experience I found Brits to be relatively indifferent to political personalities, to the extent that I would have a hard time seeing even hard-line supporters of any party or movement taking up arms as a result of a political figure being killed.
Tommy Robinson might be an exception, and maybe Corbyn back when he was Labour leader, but even then would the resulting riots lead to outright state collapse? I'm not so sure. A major prolonged infrastructure failure would be more likely to cause unrest, but whether that would spread outside the local area is another matter.

What I think would pose a significant threat of outright state collapse in the UK would be a large scale Muslim chimpout, likely caused by a mass casualty event at either a Mosque or Islamic school. We know from how Muslims reacted to the Southport riots that many Mosques hold weapons that they can quickly distribute among gangs of Muslim men at a very short notice. Should a particularly bad attack against them occur, I think it is almost certain that they will go on a national scale rampage among white areas in cities with Muslim populations, killing and raping indiscriminately.
Unlike Southport nothing the government can do, short of sending in the army with orders to open fire with live ammunition, would be able to make them stop, and once the native population realises that and acts accordingly, then the state will have completely lost all control. I think for all their naive, wide-eyed, internationalist faggotry, the government understands this implicitly and is why Muslims in particular hold such sway over the state.

And just as a disclaimer to any MI5 or SO15 fags who may be reading; I am not a British citizen, I don't reside in your country, I don't want any of the above to happen, and you're also a faggot and should kill yourself.

 

[teriyakiburns]

For a pleasing aside: the paki shop down the road isn't a paki shop any more. The guy behind the counter is ginger now. We did the dance of recognition.

This is one of the "jobs british people won't do". I like to think it's a sign of something. I'm not sure what, but it's a sign of something.

 

[Made In Wales]

For a pleasing aside: the paki shop down the road isn't a paki shop any more. The guy behind the counter is ginger now. We did the dance of recognition.

This is one of the "jobs british people won't do". I like to think it's a sign of something. I'm not sure what, but it's a sign of something.

Glad to hear, although the ginger at my local shop is a fat, unhelpful slob.

Still a little bit of an improvement from a Paki, but not much!

 

[Airstrip One]

I once stood in a field in the vicinity of Reading (which is a significant improvement on standing anywhere within Reading itself) and I watched Pulp play Common People for the first time, around eight months prior to it being released as a single. Everyone went berserk. You could tell they were going to be massive. The band had been around for a while. They had albums out on Fire records and maybe one of the other indies. They had good songs - I liked She's Dead on Separations, but it never seemed like they would really break through. Island took a punt on them and it paid off. Their His 'N' Hers album sold well. Babies, Lipgloss and Do You Remember The First Time? all charted. If ever a band benefited from wider exposure to a live audience then it was Pulp. Jarvis is a very charismatic front man who engages with his audience like no-one else and wins them over. It is well worth delving into their albums as there are deep cuts that were never released as single. Their comeback record More is solid from start to finish. We've been spoiled recently with 90s groups like Blur and Stereolab returning with really strong material, equal to anything they released in their heyday. I am hoping Supergrass will follow suit. The new Suede album is looking good too.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

For a pleasing aside: the paki shop down the road isn't a paki shop any more. The guy behind the counter is ginger now. We did the dance of recognition.

This is one of the "jobs british people won't do". I like to think it's a sign of something. I'm not sure what, but it's a sign of something.

Gingers are the biggest Muslim converts.

A Muslim chimp out would cause a massive shift in the overton window and would shift politics extremely far right over night. As soon as it becomes more than one guy in a van the country will change over night. I'm surprised the fathers of some of these rape gang victims haven't done it. If it was my kids I wouldn't be able to hold myself back from making the fire of London look like a barbecue.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I'm surprised the fathers of some of these rape gang victims haven't done it. If it was my kids I wouldn't be able to hold myself back from making the fire of London look like a barbecue.

That thought occurs to me a lot. My sister got battered by her first boyfriend and me and my pals at the time drove around our town in a van looking for him to...do what, I don't know, but we'd all got hammers at the time. The idea of someone doing that sort of thing to a child of mine and I'd probably just blow up their house. Or petrol through the letterbox at 2am and run them over as they ran out.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Gingers are the biggest Muslim converts.

Proselytising cults tend to seek out those most downtrodden by society. Being ginger is one of the few physical characteristics that it is still socially acceptable to make fun of, so gingers get all of the shit that would otherwise be spread around more evenly, which makes them unusually vulnerable to the sort of lovebombing that muslims engage in to harvest new recruits. It's a shit situation.

I'm surprised the fathers of some of these rape gang victims haven't done it.

Some did. They're in prison.

 

[Overly Serious]

That thought occurs to me a lot. My sister got battered by her first boyfriend and me and my pals at the time drove around our town in a van looking for him to...do what, I don't know, but we'd all got hammers at the time. The idea of someone doing that sort of thing to a child of mine and I'd probably just blow up their house. Or petrol through the letterbox at 2am and run them over as they ran out.

What usually happens is any group of guys going out to sort someone out like that, depending on size, will usually have one in the group whose a nutter / more reckless than the rest, who is up for being the one to actually go in and use said hammer. They're not really needing as much of a reason as everybody else. What they need is a situation where the rest of the group condones it.

So it is with civil violence. It's not so much waiting for people to be angry enough to do something. It's waiting for them to be angry enough to let someone do something. That's why that woman is doing two years in prison for saying she didn't care if someone set fire to the hotels. The tipping point isn't someone burning down a hotel. There's always someone who'd like to do such things. The tipping point is the rest of society going "good".

 

[EddyRooney]

Bob Vylan makes death threats at concert

So......how many years will this guy get ? If Lucy Connolly got 31 months ?

He called for death to a certain minority group live on our national broadcaster.

Other than one was online and one was on tv, but both in theory were on mass communication, I fail to see a difference.

Were all the members in the audience chanting the same thing back just as guilty ?

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Bob Vylan makes death threats at concert

So......how many years will this guy get ? If Lucy Connolly got 31 months ?

He called for death to a certain minority group live on our national broadcaster.

Other than one was online and one was on tv, but both in theory were on mass communication, I fail to see a difference.

Were all the members in the audience chanting the same thing back just as guilty ?

Finally we're not alone in hating the IDF! We're mainstream and on the BBC!

 

[Breadbassket]

Bob Vylan sang “heard you want your country back? Hah, shut the fuck up” at Glastonbury.

 

[bluegenius8585]

Proselytising cults tend to seek out those most downtrodden by society. Being ginger is one of the few physical characteristics that it is still socially acceptable to make fun of, so gingers get all of the shit that would otherwise be spread around more evenly, which makes them unusually vulnerable to the sort of lovebombing that muslims engage in to harvest new recruits. It's a shit situation.

Sadly true, being part ginger (aka a Day walker) I got shit in the summer when the sun would bleach my hair semi ginger. To the point where I have died it ever since

 

[bluegenius8585]

Bob Vylan sang “heard you want your country back? Hah, shut the fuck up” at Glastonbury.

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What do you expect when your stage name is a typo of someone with actual talent.

Sooner Palestine ceases to exist as a concept the better

 

[Made In Wales]

Oh well, that will be the end of Glastonbury as a festival.

Labour seething, Eavis family under pressure.

RIP Glasto 1970-2025 - yes, I'll call it now, rainbow this all you like

With regards to a Muslim 'chimp out', if a couple of Mosques go up in flames then definitely we are going to be looking at major problems.

At that point, Starmer may as well throw in the towel.

 

[HairyBadger]

Gingers are the biggest Muslim converts.

A Muslim chimp out would cause a massive shift in the overton window and would shift politics extremely far right over night. As soon as it becomes more than one guy in a van the country will change over night. I'm surprised the fathers of some of these rape gang victims haven't done it. If it was my kids I wouldn't be able to hold myself back from making the fire of London look like a barbecue.

shhh....

That thought occurs to me a lot. My sister got battered by her first boyfriend and me and my pals at the time drove around our town in a van looking for him to...do what, I don't know, but we'd all got hammers at the time. The idea of someone doing that sort of thing to a child of mine and I'd probably just blow up their house. Or petrol through the letterbox at 2am and run them over as they ran out.

My Sister was abused by her boyfriend.
We took him off the street, drove to the very north of Scotland, stripped him naked and left him.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Oh well, that will be the end of Glastonbury as a festival.

Labour seething, Eavis family under pressure.

RIP Glasto 1970-2025 - yes, I'll call it now, rainbow this all you like

It will keep going, what bothers me is the stupid cunts nodding along at the front.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

It will keep going, what bothers me is the stupid cunts nodding along at the front.

The exact same sort of people who applauded the Labour councillor screaming for throats to be slit.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

History Debunked is a good bloke

 

[Made In Wales]

History Debunked is a good bloke

He's a great guy, based and brainy.

The exact same sort of people who applauded the Labour councillor screaming for throats to be slit.

Oh, you mean Ricky Jones... I half expect him to vanish into the ether before long.